November 21, 2010
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A Name to Call You for All You Who Write To/In a Forum
Just after my last comment in the Worship Forum, it popped into my head that you all could be called "RE-FORUM-ERS, how about it?
John VanLeeuwen
Church:
About Me:
1970 immigrant to Canada from Holland, arrived on Wednesday July 1st, played my first service on July 5th, I have been smitten by the organ since I was 6 or 7 years old. My dad and a brother and brother in law moved our organ from the old to the new church in '54, I repeated this with the help of 50 members of our church after we bought a used organ from a Methodist church in Altoona Penn. My wife has been a member since 1960, our 3 kids all play, Our daughter plays the flute, the middle boy is "smitten" by his guitars, he is in the process of building one, the oldest boy also plays the organ and is a youth leader.
Interests:
Organs and more organs, with two, sometimes more organ friends, we travel around to visit churches and get to play on some wonderful organs, our last trip was to Rochester and Buffalo. I have a two manual Halbert Gober pipe organ in our living room. Besides playing the organ I am involved as the leader of our Men's bible study group, which meets once monthly in a local restaurant, I also organize a yearly benefit concert, sponsored by our church for a local homeless shelter, both for men and families and soon to be added, a shelter for homeless women.
November 16, 2010
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The Organ and the Praise Team
Does any organist or praise team member have any suggestions on improving the way we present our musical offerings in the Worship services?
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I can't remember standing for the reading of the Word, the Apostolic creed which we used every Sunday was sung for a long time, but this was done in a time where we would stand for each hymn if...
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Hi Simon, thanks for your reply and wisdom in it, wow, it really is a thin line separating the me or God side of it. I must say, using your Maxim and perhaps changing the way I put it, that you...
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Hi Simon, if I understand you correctly, yes indeed, it is all up to God to accept or refuse our offering/worship (Cain and Able). If we don't like the service, and I am speaking for myself, that...
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So what is worshipping in spirit and thruth? obviously not at the church visited in the article above! Our church SINGS, but as mentioned above, if it is unfamiliar, not so much. Some contemporary...
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Hi, I am an organist at the same church for more than 40 years now, we used to have a praise team once a month, no organ. The last couple of years the praise team is leading the service and I play...
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Hey Billwald, forgive my un-knowledge of what is where in the Bible, it sounds like you are testing the limits of how far you can go, (which kids and adolescents do, it's a part of growing up), is...
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Marcel, two more indoor ones, one is about trust I would think.
Have a strong board about 3 feet long, put it on two hymnbooks or bibles (for a strong foundation!) so that two strong boys...
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Hi Marcel, sorry for the delay, I am getting lost on the website and it takes some time to find what I am looking for. So, this string across the canal?, I was afraid you were going to ask,...
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How about asking us oldies (I am almost 65) what games we played when we were young, at the same time we, old and young can connect with each other, I am pretty sure that many a church has this "...
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Thanks Mark, I better get going on it!
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